FROM THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE DESCRIPTION OF ANCIENT AND MODERN EGYPT. Two plate volumes from the 23 volume series produced by the commission of scholars and artists that accompanied Napoleon's expedition in Egypt in 1798-1801. The complete set is comprised of 10 text and 13 plate volumes, divided into Antiquitiés, Mémoires, Histoire naturelle, Etat moderne, and Carte topographique, and published from 1809-28. The present volumes are something of an amalgam: the spine and title page of one indicate the first volume of plates for Histoire Naturelle, but the 92 large plates within are from the first volume of Antiquities, depicting architecture and ruins, monuments, tombs, artifacts, views, elevations, and maps from Philae, Eswan, Edfou, Esne, Koum Omobu, and elsewhere. The volume labeled Etat Moderne (with a corresponding title page) features a selection of plates from volumes 1 and 2 of Etat Moderne, in addition to 21 plates from the first volume of Histoire Naturelle, including 17 ichthylogical plates, as well as plates mineralogical and botanical.

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